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Copyright, 1909, by 
PILLSBURY PICTURE CO., Inc. 
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The Burning of San Francisco as seen from the St. Francis Hotel on April 18, 1906 



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Post and Stockton Streets 


Whittell Building 


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Butler Building 

















































Looking Across Union Square from Post and Stockton Streets 



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Victory Monument on Union Square 


St. Francis Hotel 


Powell and Post Streets 































Sutter Street 


Post Street 


Stockton Street 

Ruins of Shopping Section After the Fire 


Geary Street 



Same View as Above Three Years Later 





































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Market and Fourth Streets 


Flood Building 


Powell Street O’Farrell Street 

Continuation of the Same Burnt District as seen from the St. Francis Hotel 


City Hall 



This View Illustrates the Almost Complete Rebuilding of the District Shown in the Upper Picture 




























View of Tomblike Ruins from Hopkins Institute 



View from Summit of California Street Hill 














































All That Was Left on Kearny Street, near Post 



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Second Street 


Shell of the Historic Palace Hotel It Cost $90,000 to Remove This Debris Call Building 


Market and Post Streets 


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Metropolis Bank 


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North Side of Market Street 


Crocker National Bank 


Post Street 


First National Bank Montgomery Street 


Union Trust Bank 


One of the most striking 
corners in San Francisco, 
at the junction of Post, 
Montgomery and Market 
Streets, showing three of 
the most important banks 
in the city. 

The picture on the extreme 
left shows another fourteen 
story bank building and 
the new Palace Hotel, the 
whole group illustrating 
the fine architecture of the 
new San Francisco. 

The picture gives a good 
idea of the way in which 
the streets running into 
Market Street form a gore 
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The Apartment House District on the Hillside Was Completely Wiped Out McAllister Street Hibernia Bank Jones Street 



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Hotels and Apartment Houses Are Rapidly Returning to Their Former Location 


Fairmont Hotel 


Mason Street 

















































Market Street 


United States Mint A Desolate View from Seventh and Market Streets in 1 906 



Market Street 


The Same District in 1909 































































View from Turk and Market Streets 



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Mason Street 


View from the Same Corner as Above 


Market Street 











































View from Market and Sixth Streets 



Taylor Street 


Market Street 


Class “A” Hewes Building of Fourteen Stories 


Sixth Street 























































Mutual Bank Building, Market and Geary Streets 



Phelan Building, Market and O’Farrell Streets 




























Looking Down Market Street from a Point Below Sixth Street 





Market and Third Streets, from Kearny 


Market Street Below Fifth Street 


The Emporium 


Humboldt Bank Building 































AN FRANCISCO THEN ” refers to that memorable time when the citizens of San Francisco saw| their beloved 
city in flames and later looked out across four square miles of smoking ashes and piles of broken brick and stone. 
The pictures in this book show more strikingly than words can tell the story of u SAN FRANCISCO NOW . 
They show a city risen, almost like magic, in three short years, from a heap of ruins. They show a “ City 
Beautiful ”, with fine, broad streets, tall, ornate buildings of classic architecture, splendid churches, schools, theaters, 
beautiful, artistic, modern homes, and parks blooming with semi-tropic flowers the year around. 

For those to whom statistics are interesting, the following figures are eloquent: 


Expended in Construction of Buildings since the fire 
Spent by street railroads in Improvements in three years 
Annual Imports --------- 

Annual Exports - -- -- -- -- 

Savings Deposits, first six months of 1909 - 


$169,000,000.00 

12,000,000.00 

45,000,000.00 

35,000,000.00 

150,173,360.00 


Population of San Francisco, considerably over 500,000. Hotels 150, with suites of 
17,500 rooms and accommodations for 50,000 guests, besides boarding houses and 
apartment blocks innumerable. 


San Francisco is reconstructed. Her Portola Festival, celebrating the discovery of San Francisco Bay by Don Gaspar 
de Portola in 1769, is simply an excuse for a brief breathing spell after her herculean labors of three years. It affords an opportunity 
and a reason for saying to all the world, "SAN FRANCISCO is her gay, joyous, beautiful self once more. As you mourned 
with her in her night of sorrow, come now and rejoice with her in her day of triumph.” 


All photographs in this book are copyrighted by 
the Pillsbury Picture Co., Inc., San Francisco, 
from whom prints can be obtained. 


Copyright, 1909, by 
PILLSBURY PICTURE CO., Inc. 
174 Geary Street, San Francisco 


BOLTE & BRADEN CO. 

Printers 

50 Main Street, San Francisco 












































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